Adwords Editor Tool Ambiguous Row Type

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After a lot searching today for a solution to this error, I decided to post the solution here so it may be easier found by others. The error “Ambiguous Row Type” occurs if you upload the keywords column with the other 20+ columns of data to the Google Adword Editor.

The solution is to remove the keywords column and upload. Then, built a second spreadsheet containing the following columns:
Campaign
Ad Group
Keyword
Keyword type

This will upload and update your existing ads with the keyword. Hope that helps!

Posted in: Google Adwords

This article has 4 comments

  1. andreas.wpv 05/19/2010, 10:49 pm:

    Thanks Nick,

    You saved my night, or at least part of it!

    What a shame the import of all data in one file does not work any more, or even the import of Google spreadsheets. This is a lot of work splitting up and than adding the missing info manually….

    Thanks again.

  2. sfleslie 01/05/2011, 6:50 pm:

    Actually – this error means you are trying to import a csv file, where you have keyword data and ad text data on the same line. If you make sure that any keywords are on separate lines, utilizing the columns for any data you’d like to include such as match type, status, bid, etc – then you can import a csv that includes both keywords and ad text on the same sheet.

    If you export a CSV file from AdWords Editor – you’ll see the necessary format it needs to be in – just copy that!

    Hope that helps!

  3. Matt Jones 04/08/2011, 12:27 pm:

    Thanks this was a great help!

  4. Clent Crumley 11/02/2011, 8:59 pm:

    sweet man. can’t believe i found the answer here before i found it on google adwords help.

    have you worked with any the Google PHP Api yet?

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